In this seminar, we will look at the Constitution, especially the 10th Amendment, the Insurrection Act of 1807, and the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. The military has been used domestically to safeguard civil rights marchers, intervene when requested by governors during violent riots, to stop the Bonus March on Washington in 1932, and to imprison Japanese civilians during World War II. Who is in today's military, where do they come from, how do they line up politically--and would they follow an illegal order and fire on unarmed civilian demonstrators or support a government coup?